Social progress

flourished, and the greatest success of the New Deal was the security it gave to Americans. The Alphabet Agencies served many purposes, but they were all used to help Americans during the aftermath of the depression. One agency known as the Works Progress Administration (WPA), employed millions of people to carry out public works projects. The WPA constructed as many as 125,000 government-run buildings, 650,000 miles…

The twentieth century (1929) Stock Market crash set in motion a chain of events that would plunge the United States into a deep depression. The Depression of the 1930 's called for the end of an era of economic prosperity during the 1920 's. President Herbert Hoover was the unfortunate to preside over this economic downfall. Hoover believed the cause of this depression was international, and he therefore believed that restoring the gold standard would ultimately drag the US out of depression by…

The Great Depression was a time of economic downfall that began in 1929 and lasted until 1939. It was triggered by the 1929 Stock Market Crash and is known as the most dreadful depression experienced in Western civilization. Two long term causes of the Great Depression were agriculture and industry. The farmers had begun to overproduce during WW1 to feed Europe corn and wheat. In order to do so, many farmers retrieved loans to expand their farming land. However, after the war, the amount of…

The Great Depression was inevitable because of the Government’s inexperience with the affair of the stock markets. Citizens could invest into companies by buying shares. A share is ownership of that company that would have a monetary value. If the share value went up then the stock owner would receive profit, and if the stock value went down the owner would lose their beginning investment. Another big problem with stock was Insider Trading. Two or more “insiders” would exaggerate the value of…

people in America were provided these loans and therefore able to keep their homes. On August 14th, 1935, President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. The act gave comfort to the elderly population in America as well as to the unemployed, the impoverished the disabled, etc. The Federal Security Agency was created in 1939 to oversee the distribution of social security. However, the agency did have other important duties such as authority over public health programs and food and drug…

to receive an education. Another example of the relief provided by the New Deal is found in Document 6, where evidence is given on how the Works Progress Administration provided well-balanced meals for schoolchildren throughout the country. Many children have to travel many miles in order to reach school, and for most of these children, the Works Progress Administration provides the only hot meal of the day. This program of the New Deal was able to provide a much needed nourishment for the…

During the 20th century (1929), the United States was hit with a huge Stock Market crash and this basically started events that would drag the US into a large depression. President Herbert Hoover was the unlucky president to have been in power when the crash took launch . Hoover believed the cause of this depression was international, and he solely believed that restoring the gold standard would drag the US out of depression by restoring international trade. He initiated many domestic works…

overproduction which led to people not being able to afford food and basically starved most of the nation. This is important because it reveals that FDR’s unyielding approach was damaging not only the people but America as a whole. Second of all, the Social Security Admin, a welfare program was taken advantage of and further inflated government deficit(SSA). The SSA greatly reduced the number of people on the workforce, lessened consumer spending because of a fixed income, and not to mention,…

In 1933 when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office, he passed a series of documents called the New Deal. These documents were created in hope to push recovery in America and pull it out of the Great Depression. This New Deal supplied workers with jobs by creating government funded works projects to help better develop the country. Many of these jobs were specifically directed to artists. Before this time never before in history have artists been considered "workers". But because of the New Deal,…

even more with the passing of the Works Progress Administration act which employed an extra 8 million people. Sometime after 1936, the Wagner Act was put into place to set working hours and minimum wage, and prohibited children under 18 from working. It also acted as a Magna Carta for unions, since union membership grew exponentially. The working class now has a voice and is thus strengthened. To cope with the growing working class, Roosevelt announced the Social Security Act to encourage the…